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appertainment

appertainment noun: that which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings.

Noun

appertainment (countable and uncountable, plural appertainments)

  1. (obsolete) That which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings.
    • He shent our messengers, and we lay by / Our appertainments, visiting of him.c. 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 2, scene 3, lines 78–79
    • The property of appertainment of a set is therefore the property which, by definition, has to be given in every element of the set.2016 [2013], Bernd Klauer, Reiner Manstetten, Thomas Petersen, Johannes Schiller, “Material stocks”, in Kathleen Cross, transl., Sustainability and the Art of Long-Term Thinking, translation of Die...

Forms of appertainment

pluralappertainments

Origin of appertainment

From appertain + -ment.

Questions about appertainment

What does appertainment mean?
Appertainment means that which appertains or belongs to a person; an appurtenance; trappings.
What part of speech is appertainment?
Appertainment is a noun.
What is the plural of appertainment?
The plural of appertainment is appertainments.

Words near appertainment in the dictionary

  1. appertainances
  2. appertained
  3. appertainest
  4. appertaineth
  5. appertaining
  6. appertainment
  7. appertainments
  8. appertains
  9. appertinance
  10. appertinances
  11. appertinence

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